Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib 1.2.0 (OS X 10.6 binary) "requires System Python 2.7"

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<CAJ...@ma...>,
 Alexey Shamrin <sh...@gm...> 
 wrote:

> Thank you for 1.2.0 release!
> 
> Could you please make it clear that matplotlib requires
> python.org-Python sourceforge.net-NumPy? Telling about it during
> installation would be great.

This is described in three places:
- The description of the file on the download page
- The name of the file on the download page
- The ReadMe file in the binary installer

Note that the official binary installers for numpy and scipy are also 
for python.org python, and as far as I know they do no more than the 
matplotlib installer as far as informing the user of this fact.

It is bdist_mpkg that makes these installers, and it could be better 
about checking compatibility. But that is a known issue.

I don't know about messages about "system python", though that vaguely 
rings a bell as a bdist_mpkg issue.

I'll add information about numpy to the ReadMe for future binary 
installers. Aside from that, I believe I've done everything I reasonably 
can to clarify the requirements for the binary installer.

-- Russell